A Systematic Review for the Latest Development in Requirement Engineering

Requirement engineering has been the subject of large volume of researches due to the significant role it plays in the software development life cycle. However, dynamicity of software industry is much faster than advances in requirements engineering approaches. Therefore, this paper aims to systematically review and evaluate the current research in requirement engineering and identify new research trends and direction in this field. In addition, various research methods associated with the Evaluation-based techniques and empirical study are highlighted for the requirements engineering field. Finally, challenges and recommendations on future directions research are presented based on the research team observations during this study.

Authors:

• Ishraq A. Al-Fataftah
• Ayman A. Issa

Keywords:

• Current trends
• Future trends
• Requirement Engineering

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